Coffee/Beer/Chocolate without [Substance]

As told 12

“coffee, yes, but without caffeine... what we call sex is precisely sex without sex”
1:03:33 Professor Slavoj Žižek | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union2019-01-01 · 1:15:08

“coffee without caffeine sausage without fat Coca-Cola without...you want the element but censored of its element”
1:26:17 Perfil Interview2018-09-09 · 2:59:07

“You can have it all but in a reduced form deprived of its substance.”
3:43 Slavoj Žižek interview on NiteBeat2008-06-25 · 05:36

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

X without X ×5 chocolate laxative ×2 revolution without revolution ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Mel Gibson2 Sophie Fiennes2 Chantal Mouffe2 Jesus Christ2 Tariq Ali2 Joseph de Maistre1 Ra'anan Gissin1 Ben Hecht1

alongside works

The Lost Symbol2 Homo Deus2 The Hunger Games3 Justice, Not Vengeance1 How to Read Beauvoir1 The Caucasian Chalk Circle1 Book on Lacan (Unspecified Title)1 Spider-Man (films)1

Told together with

15% Facebook censors Napalm Girl 2 shared talks 12% chocolate laxative 2 shared talks 10% James Bond Quantum of Solace, no sex at the end 2 shared talks 9% Lenin's Wife and Mistress 2 shared talks 9% Canned laughter / TV laugh track 2 shared talks 8% Postmodern permissive father and grandmother visit 2 shared talks 7% Bill Gates as rent-extractor from general intellect 2 shared talks 7% Brassed Off coffee invitation 2 shared talks 6% Malcolm X and the loss of roots as emancipatory starting point 2 shared talks 5% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks 3% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks 3% Niels Bohr's horseshoe 2 shared talks

Every retelling 12

1:03:33 Professor Slavoj Žižek | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union2019-01-01 · 1:15:08

Žižek lists consumer goods stripped of their defining, potentially harmful or intense qualities (coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol) to illustrate the modern desire for safe, non-disruptive experiences., illustrating Sex without sex,Culturalism without the real other

1:26:17 Perfil Interview2018-09-09 · 2:59:07

Žižek lists decaffeinated coffee, fat-free sausage, sugar-free Coca-Cola as paradigm cases of contemporary controlled hedonism: you want the element but receive it censored of its dangerous substance., illustrating controlled hedonism,ideology of desire

3:43 Slavoj Žižek interview on NiteBeat2008-06-25 · 05:36

A series of examples of 'products in a reduced form deprived of its substance': coffee without caffeine, pastry without sugar, beer (Denis Leary joke), safe sex (sex without sex), and the Colin Powell doctrine (war without warfare/casualties)., illustrating X without Y

16:19 Racial Enjoyments2016-11 · 1:50:03

Žižek lists consumerist products drained of their active ingredient as the model for political correctness: a multicultural liberalism that admits injustice but removes any real transformative element., illustrating revolution without revolution,ideology,political correctness

6:53 Slavoj Zizek: Identity Politics, Ideology and the Real of History | Video Lecture Series (3/3)pub. 2020-02-29 · 19:04

Modern products that provide the effect (taste, buzz) but are deprived of the dangerous substance (caffeine, alcohol), illustrating the 'chocolate laxative' logic., illustrating chocolate laxative,politics of the real (of the superego)

14:00 Rules, Race and Mel Gibson2006 · 1:09:13

A series of market products deprived of their active/unpleasant property (decaf coffee, fat-free cream, alcohol-free beer, genetically modified wind-free beans) illustrate the logic of simulacrum: the appearance without the substance., illustrating simulacrum,chocolate laxative logic,decaf torture / truth pill